Chapter 223 Winter is Coming

The ground suddenly shook slightly, but it didn't seem like a severe earthquake. Everyone stopped and looked around vigilantly.

Not long after, the communicator beside Amuro Toru's ear suddenly beeped twice.

He reached out and pressed his ear twice, and soon, Matsuda Jinpei's slight panting sound came from there, as if he had just run to somewhere at a very fast speed.

"We've got the key to the ship's control room." He started to speak over there, "This key is connected to the self-destruct device at the door of the laboratory."

"Self-destruct device?!" Amuro Toru immediately raised his voice, frowned and asked, "Hey, you're not injured, are you?"

"Nonsense, would I call you like this if I were injured?" The man on the other end dragged out his tone, and his more relaxed tone finally made the public security here breathe a sigh of relief, "But the entrance to the laboratory has collapsed, I'm afraid it will be difficult to get in from here."

Now that they have obtained the control room key needed for the cruise ship-related laboratories, there is no need to go back. He breathed out and relaxed a little, "I thought..."

"How could I get into trouble that easily." Matsuda Jinpei raised an eyebrow, "Just wanted to remind you that the secret passage here is blocked after the collapse. Don't go here from now on. We'll go meet you right away."

Amuro Toru responded. He turned off the communicator, but he felt that his breathing was not smooth for some reason.

'It's a bit strange to install a self-destruct device at the entrance of the laboratory.'

Yueshan Asari whispered to the system in his heart, but what made him feel the most strange now was Rum. With this guy's character that would never give up unless he was finally sent to prison or executed, after discovering that he was deceived, he did not do anything except yelling in disbelief at the beginning. He even followed obediently on the way to the ship, which was strange no matter how you looked at it.

Thinking of this, he glanced at the old man, but after the ground shook slightly, a sneer suddenly appeared on his face.

This smile made Tsukiyama startled. Before he could react, he saw Rum, who was being held by Amuro Toru, suddenly struggled violently when the former's hand had not been removed from the communicator, and hit the wall with his back. The bricks on the originally flat wall suddenly moved, revealing a space. At the moment of opening, he used his hands that were bound behind his back to grab the things inside.

The black-haired man only saw a conspicuous red and the cold metal. He paused for a moment and immediately realized that it was a gun and the detonation button of the bomb.

"He has a bomb--!" Edogawa Conan shouted immediately, he raised his watch-shaped anesthesia device and shot several needles at the old man, but the other party dodged it quickly.

Rum turned his hand flexibly with a sly expression. He fired several bullets at Amuro Toru who was rushing from behind, and then pressed his thumb hard on the bright red detonation button. Damn

!

The boy who ran towards Rum's side stared with wide eyes. Amuro Toru was hit by two bullets in a row on his shoulder and arm, but he did not dodge the bullets at all. He rushed behind him in a few steps and firmly grasped his hand that was trying to press down the gun. However, because his shoulder and arm were hit by bullets and he was affected by the previous drugs, he could not pry his hand open for a while, and the other party even had a tendency to press down.

At the critical moment, a cold light flashed from a distance, causing a burst of wind, and accurately crossed Rum's hand holding the gun, cutting all the tendons at his wrist.

"Ah!" The old man screamed in pain. He opened his eyes, which were soaked with cold sweat. When he saw the dagger inserted into the wall next to him, the confusion and pain in his eyes were replaced by anger. "You, you are the same as them! It turns out that you are also a rat hiding in the corner."

He gritted his teeth and squeezed out the name from his throat, "...Cointreau."

Behind Rum, Amuro Toru immediately twisted his wrist, forcing him to drop his hand because of the pain. After throwing the gun and detonator on the ground, he kicked it away.

Matsuda Jinpei and Okiya Subaru, who had come to the round, heard several gunshots in a row and rushed over in a hurry. After seeing this scene, the black curly-haired police officer quickly took over the task of arresting Rum and signaled Amuro Toru to treat the wound quickly.

The blond-haired and dark-skinned man did not move immediately.

He covered his bleeding arm and, like Okiya Subaru who took his eyes off the dagger that reflected the cold light, turned his eyes to another exit of the secret passage.

The newcomer had changed out of the clothes he wore in the lab, and returned to his usual suit and light windbreaker. He was not wearing glasses this time, which was rare. His eyebrows and eyes, which were almost the same as Tsukiyama Asari's, were exposed. The eyebrows and eyes, which were originally flying and sharp, softened a little, and became the look that had not yet fully grown. Instead, they looked more and more similar to Tsukiyama Asari's eyes.

Rum might be right. Cointreau now looks younger than his brother who is more than ten years younger than him.

He raised his head, his eyes and face were still cold, and when he walked towards the group, the heels of his short boots stepped on the bricks, making a clicking sound.

As Toru Amuro listened, he suddenly remembered that when he was trying to extract intelligence, he heard several unnamed lower-level members, who were filled with fear, calling this sound the death knell of Cointreau reaping lives.

At the edge of the crowd, Akiyoshi Kawashima quietly looked at the face that was not covered by the mask at all.

The long and narrow corridor, the footsteps like a death knell, the black hair blown by the wind from nowhere, the eyes as cold as the dagger in the hand...all the images turned into fragments scattered on the ground, and turned into several screams from long ago.

Akiyoshi Kawashima, who had been silent all the time, suddenly took a few steps back, and when Conan Edogawa was about to walk to the hand that fell to the ground. When he was in front of the gun and the detonator, he suddenly reached out and grabbed them, and before anyone could react, he fired several bullets at Tsukiyama's forehead.

The corridor was too narrow, and when the bullet flew over, the black-haired man heard the system in his head swearing. The diligent stickman even urgently called up the time converter, but just as the bullet was about to hit him, Yutani Mia, who had rushed over, suddenly pulled the man from the side, who had no way of dodging the bullet.

Because of the cheap position, the bullet that was originally going to hit him in the middle of the forehead flew past the side of his face, and blood immediately flowed down along the blood mark left by the bullet.

Toru Amuro moved almost immediately, trying to snatch the detonator from the other party, but Akiyoshi Kawashima raised the bright red device in his hand a second before the man arrived, gritting his teeth and saying, "Don't move--!"

"If you dare to move, I will press it immediately, and none of you can leave here." Akiyoshi Kawashima gritted his teeth and said, he narrowed his eyes and pointed out the things in their hands mercilessly, "Your hands. Guns, the thing on the kid's wrist that can shoot needles, put them all down and throw them on the ground!"

"If you make any unnecessary moves, I promise to press this thing immediately!" The man pulled the corner of his mouth, his eyes were red, "I'm not afraid of death... Don't try to make small moves, and you..."

He narrowed his eyes and met the cold and vigilant cold gray eyes of the black-haired man. Every word he read out was filled with hatred that was many times deeper than that of Rum, "Cointreau. Put down your knife, both of your knives."

Yu Gu Miao frowned.

The other party was now visibly excited, like the kind of drug dealer that Kasugawa Shugo often dealt with, who could do anything in desperate situations. If the other party is not temporarily stabilized, no one knows what he can do.

Fearing that Rum would take advantage of this change and do something else, Matsuda Jinpei, who was holding the old man, quickly removed his wrists and then pulled out his hands from his waist. He gestured to the other party and threw the gun to the ground.

He had seen bombers who were so excited that they were close to madness when he was on duty, but he didn't expect to encounter such a scene again here. During

the action, the police officer with black curly hair vaguely heard the man he was holding in front of him laugh softly.

Seeing that everyone put down their things, Akiyoshi Kawashima finally sneered. His hands were shaking, but his fingers were always firmly pressed on his hands. On the trigger of the gun, it seemed that he was ready to fire the next bullet at any time.

"Mr. Kawashima, calm down first..." Toru Amuro put his hands to his ears, indicating that he had no weapons and no threats. He frowned and tried to analyze why the other party suddenly changed his mind. In the end, the only conclusion he came to was that it was related to the sudden appearance of Cointreau. "We..."

"Shut up!" Kawashima Akiyoshi roared. His hoarse voice interrupted the blond man's unfinished words. "I know you are police officers. I will let you leave here... But now, I'm only talking to him."

The man gritted his teeth, his eyes filled with hatred like a wolf with its mouth wide open, ready to pounce and bite the other's neck at any time.

"Cointreau... Cointreau." He sneered, and quickly took off the mask he had been wearing with the hand holding the detonation button, and then threw the mask casually on the ground, revealing a face with wrinkles at the corners of the eyes, "Do you still remember my face?"

Cointreau looked at him.

This was a face without any special features, as gentle and refined as all the upper-class people, but now this face was squeezed into a distorted shape by hatred, anger and excitement, and it was even harder to tell what the characteristics were.

"That's right...that's right..." As if he knew that he had asked a question that was doomed to have no answer, Kawashima Akiyoshi trembled and murmured in a low voice, "That's right. I'm not like you who will never age. After a dozen years, my face should have aged beyond recognition."

"But I won't forget you..." The next second, his voice, which had already lowered, rose again and turned into a hoarse roar, "Forget your face that is stained with the blood of my wife and daughter!"

Yu Gu Miao suddenly widened his eyes.

He heard several screams and someone's low pleas in his ears, but when the man tried hard to recall, all the screams and blood spread infinitely, turning into countless overlapping faces with eyes open, and layers of corpses that died under his knife. His head throbbed twice because of the large patches of red, and it hurt like an explosion.

"More than ten years... I have been looking for you for more than ten years, collecting your clues and getting your information..." Kawashima Akiyoshi pulled up the corners of his mouth, smiling, but tears flowed down from the corners of his eyes, "My daughter, a daughter who is less than four years old... and Yiqian..."

He murmured, as if he had returned to that night covered by the smell of blood. The businessman who was favored by the organization and had to provide convenience to the other party finally couldn't stand the condemnation of his conscience. When he hurriedly packed up and wanted to take his wife and daughter away, the organization's judgment fell as expected.

The cold knife light flashed in the dark, the face stained with blood, the wife and daughter covered in blood on the carpet, the half-closed eyes that had lost their expression... Everything ended with the black-haired man holding the earphone between his ears and saying "Mission completed".

Yu Gu Miao was silent. He opened his mouth, but could not speak. After a long time, he looked at the other party. The original vigilance in his eyes completely disappeared, and turned into a complex emotion that even Kawashima Akiyoshi could not understand, "......Then your gun should be aimed at me."

"Aim at you?" The man who had been pointing his gun at Yueshan Chaori behind him suddenly laughed. He repeated with gritted teeth, "For more than ten years, I have always wanted to raise my hand to you. Gun, kill you... Now I don't want to do that anymore. From the moment I saw his eyes on the ship, I changed my mind. I want to kill him more than you!"

He roared, pressing his hand. The hand on the gun tightened, "You should also taste it... You should also taste this kind of taste, Jundu."

"You should taste what it feels like to have your loved ones die in front of you! You should also hold their bodies in your own hands and touch their boiling blood--!"

Yu Gu Miao suddenly closed his eyes tightly, and even his breathing was wrong for a few seconds.

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